Product DescriptionOracle''s Sun Server X3-2 (formerly Sun Fire X4170 M3)
, powered by two of the highest performing CPUs from the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, offers unparalleled performance balanced with compute, memory, and I/O capabilities in a compact energy-efficient 1U enclosure. The server is available in three flexible chassis configurations and offers superior scalability with terabytes of storage, four PCIe 3.0 expansion slots, and four 10GbE network interface ports. A versatile server for enterprise data centers that run a range of mission-critical business applications, the Sun Fire X4170 M3 server is ideal for running middleware and enterprise business application workloads and as a platform for application development.

Install: An ISO image of the SLES11sp1 Install Media was used to install the Operating System via Virtual DVD-ROM device.

PLDP network driver: The PLDP Driver ixgbe.ko was installed and tested on Intel X540-AT2 and 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers. The driver can be downloaded from http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Intel/sle11sp1/common/x86_64/intel-ixgbe-3.7.14-1.x86_64.rpm and http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Intel/sle11sp1/common/x86_64/intel-ixgbe-kmp-default-3.7.14_2.6.32.12_0.7-1.x86_64.rpm and http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Intel/sle11sp1/common/x86_64/intel-ixgbe-kmp-xen-3.7.14_2.6.32.12_0.7-1.x86_64.rpm

Serial port: General purpose serial port functionality is not provided by the hardware. Therefore the serial port is supported only for accessing the ILOM and the serial port certification test has been waived.

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Adapters and Drivers

Intel
82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)

Driver Type: LAN Driver

Driver Name: ixgbe.ko

Driver Date: 06-Dec-2011

Driver Size: 358256

Checksum: e9c651aef2f4b223a0ed12d3bdede617

2 Intel
X540-AT2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)

Driver Type: LAN Driver

Driver Name: ixgbe.ko

Driver Date: 06-Dec-2011

Driver Size: 358256

Checksum: e9c651aef2f4b223a0ed12d3bdede617

Oracle America Inc.
SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z

Driver Type: HBA Driver

Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko

Driver Date: 20-May-2010

Driver Size: 445832

Checksum: cd67787d698b9e84b01afc1e1bd06835

Oracle America Inc.
SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z

Driver Type: HBA Driver

Driver Name: lpfc.ko

Driver Date: 20-May-2010

Driver Size: 777360

Checksum: fe839bf44ba9a838b2f43b747ea6e389

Oracle America Inc.
SUN STORAGE 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID, SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z

Driver Type: HBA Driver

Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko

Driver Date: 20-May-2010

Driver Size: 216504

Checksum: 4f4d893c3e89e8f971c1ed835b470a5c

ASPEED
AST2300

Driver Type: Video Driver

Driver Name: ast_drv.so

Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010

Driver Size: 60848

Checksum: 8e4e7eec0ef3525ae067564d6cccbe56

Driver Type: Video Driver

Driver Name: swrast_dri.so

Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010

Driver Size: 2380528

Checksum: ccc1c687b5bf885f56dcdea73a7076ec

The term YES CERTIFIED applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin.
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